 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 pages
...enobles the actions of fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from themoft importantconcernsof mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and hurry in the battles of flLneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his ALncis he compares the labours... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1765 - 378 pages
...fourth Georgic: And enobles the actions of fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from themoft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not...of JEneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his flLneis he compares the labours of his ^Trojans to thofe of bees and pifmires,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1777 - 322 pages
...Fourth Georgic: and enobles the aftions of fo trivial a creature^ with metaphors drawn from the moft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and and hurry in the battles of j.Eneas and Vurnns, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 pages
...Fourth Georgic : and ennobles the a£Hons ef fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the moft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not...of JEneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his ^ineis he compares the labours of his Trojans to thofe of bees and pifmires,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 942 pages
...Fourth Georgic i and ennobles the aftions of fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the moft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and hurry in the battles of .ffineas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his .^Eneis he compares the labours... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 pages
...metaphors drawn from the moft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater nolle and hurry in the battles of JEneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his JEneis he compares the labours of his Trojans to thofe of bees and pifinires,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 pages
...Fourth Georgic : and ennobles the aftions of fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the moft important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and hurry in the battles of and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his Mneis he compares the labours of his... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...fourth Géorgie; and ennobles the. actions of fo trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the moil important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and hurry in the battles of JEne&s and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in his ^Eneis he compares the labours... | |
 | 1797 - 680 pages
...fourth Géorgie; and ennobles the aclions of fo trivial a creature, with meta, phors drawn fiom the moll important concerns of mankind. His verfes are not in a greater noife and hurry in the battlcj of ./Eneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two fwarms. And as in hLs .¿Eneis he compares... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 pages
...important concerns of mankind. His verses are not in a greater noise and hurry in the battles of iEneas and Turnus, than in the engagement of two swarms. And as, in his Mneis, he compares the labours of his . Trojans to those of bees and pismires, here he compares the... | |
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Virgil seems no where so well pleased, as when he is got among his Bees in the Fourth Georgic ; and ennobles the actions of so trivial a creature, with metaphors drawn from the most important concerns of mankind. His verses are not in a greater noise... 
